# MOO-Cows Mailing list changes

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:50:28 PST

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    This is to announce two changes in the way the MOO-Cows family of mailing lists
    are operated:

    First, due to the size of the main list and the persistently high level of
    traffic lately, we have been asked to move over to a fully-digestified format.
    This means that subscribers to the main MOO-Cows@Xerox.Com mailing list will
    soon begin receiving only digests of multiple postings to the list, rather than
    one message for each posting.  Subscribers to MOO-Cows-Digest and
    MOO-Cows-Announce will not see any change.  We are continuing to maintain the
    distinction between MOO-Cows and MOO-Cows-Digest in order to facilitate a
    possible later undoing of this decision; people should continue to subscribe to
    MOO-Cows instead of MOO-Cows-Digest if they would *prefer* to receive
    individual messages, even though (for the time being) that preference will be
    ignored.

    Before those of you on the main list panic, please note that the digests have
    been coming out in a very timely manner all through the past year, at the
    average rate of almost one per day, with peaks of *four* per day.  You don't
    have to worry about your postings lying dormant for days waiting for enough
    traffic to force another edition of the digest.

    Second, my search for a replacement mailing-list maintainer has been
    successful.  The mailing list has been turned over to Kim Bobrow, a consultant
    here at Xerox PARC and archwizard of two educational research MOOs run by one
    of the other research projects here.  You can reach Kim concerning mailing-list
    matters at the following address:

    	moo-cows-approval@Xerox.Com

    I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Kim for taking on this job
    (and taking it off *my* shoulders).  She's a real trooper!  I'd also like to
    thank the several other people who volunteered to take over the mailing list;
    in the end, I decided to take the offer nearest at hand, in order to minimize
    the disruption to the list itself.

    	Pavel